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DevOps Version Control and Practices: Introduction to Version Control

In this lab, you’ll practice basic version control with Git. When you’re finished, you’ll have a fully initialized and configured Git repository, understand basic Git commands, and know how to manage branches and merges.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
1h 20m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Install and Initialize Git

    You will install Git on your machine, configure it for initial use, and initialize a new Git repository in a project directory.

  3. Challenge

    Perform Basic Git Operations

    You will perform basic Git operations, including adding files to the staging area, committing changes, viewing the commit history, modifying files, and managing a .gitignore file.

  4. Challenge

    Explore Branching and Merging in Git

    You will explore branching and merging in Git, including creating and switching branches, making and committing changes on a new branch, merging branches, and resolving merge conflicts.

  5. Challenge

    Collaborate Using a Local Repository

    You will collaborate using a local Git repository by creating a bare repository, cloning it to two different directories to simulate multiple collaborators, making changes, pushing, pulling, and resolving conflicts.

  6. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Matt is a DevOps engineer and solution architect with over 10 years of experience. Matt has presented at several conferences and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016.

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